Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-04-06
4 NEW PARLOR GAME.
WHOEVER FIRST COMES ALONG WITH
1T WILL GET RICH.

Any Trivial Little Thing Easily Becomes
a Craze-Fun With Bean Bags-Para-
phefnaiis Of the Game-Drawing "A
Pig.
'The man who will invent new parlor
game that will catch the fancy of society
needn't trouble himself about the little cares
of this hfe," said society man "All the
circles high and low are thirsting for some
thing new, and whoever gets in with it first
is sure to make a fortune. Now, to show you
how easily a trivial little thing becomes a
craze, | have only TO call your attention to
the fean bag game 1t isn't the old bean bag
that you toss from one row or line of persons
to another but game that requires little
skill in throwing. That's the secret of the
whole thing-the throwing You want a
number of bean bags Of different sizes, q piece
OF painted canvas with hole in it. and ap-
piiances to stretch the canvas between the
folding doors dividing two parlors and when
you've got them you've got the new craze
complete I've seen twenty married men
and women throwing bags at the hole in the
canvas for two hours, and they seemed to
enjoy it so much that they were reluctant to
stop and so home. Ii you hear business
man complain OF sore shoulder you can
truthfuIly suspect him of bean throwing.
There is a sort of excitement about the game
that makes it popular, but it wont run very
long, Men ike it because they want to
demonstrate to their wives that they can
throw straighter than women; also because
it makes them thinL of the DAYS when shin
ing silk hat was mark for snowfall or a
brick
TEN SIZES OF BEAN BAGS.
"Of course there are prizes for the best
throwers as there are for the best PLAYERS of
progressive euchre, and once the things gets
in motion everybody does his best to get the
best prize. There are ten sizes of bags, and
they count from 10 to 100, the latter of course
being the largest bag. thrower begins
with the ten, and if he succeeds in putting it
through the hole in the canvas he tries TO
send the twenty bag after it, and continues
to throw until he scores miss, when lie has
to give way to the next person on the list.
The parapi1eT'nalia of the game. as you can
see, is simple, vet it can be made to cost a
good deal of money if any anybody has a no.
tlon for costly things. am credibly informed
that the genius who invented it has already
mdde 100000 from the manufacture and sale
of bags and canvas, and that his profits are
increasing every day.
There is another form of amusement that
is coming into favor very rapidly, though it
isn't nearly as popular as the bean bag 1t is
the drawing of objects on paper and states
blindfolded was at party the other night
when a contest of this kind was gotten up by
some of the ladies' and it proved a source of
genuine fun
"' Now began one of the ladies who pro-
posed the game. L will hlindfold Mr. Nj
and let him try to draw pig Mr. Nj
was accordingly bindfolded, pencil was
put in his hand and he began to trace the
outlines Of porker on piece of drawing
paper. It was funny, | tell you, to watch
that pig as he developed it. When he got
through and removed the handkerchief from
his eyes to catch glimpse at his work he just
said, Rats, that amt pig. l can do better
than that
"Hc was right. 1t wasn't pig, and it
would have taken a greater genius than any
that saw it to have hkened it to anv object to
be found above ground There were two or
three STOCK yafdS men In the party, men who
buy and sell hogs every day, and not one of
them came nearer a pig than a pig itself
could if 10 had pencil. All this may look
trivial to persons who don't get great deal
Of parlor entertainment, but | assure you it
was good fun for everybody there. Itdoesn't
take much to amnse people who are at all
inclined to he domestic in their tastes. and the
simpler the game the more popular it will
become, That's why progressive cuchre has
stood so long. Chicago Herald,